On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:42:46AM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: > On 16/11/2010, at 9:44 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:41:35PM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: > >> For the creation of .msi package files, WiX seems to be the right > >> tool these days (open source): > >> > >> http://wix.sourceforge.net > >> > >> Actually kind of think I've heard of it before, as it got some press > >> a few years back from being one of the very first Open Source > >> projects by Microsoft itself. (or something along those lines) > > > > WiX itself is open source, but it has closed source dependencies, so > > it is of no use. That's why we're still using NSIS, despite all its > > failings. > > Do you remember what the closed source dependencies are? The bottom line is this email: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx/msg61468.html I don't know whether this is true, or still true, but I do know that the build system for WiX is out of bizarro-land. You will need to ask on the Fedora Mono SIG list to find out what the current status of WiX is (and how to build it on Fedora). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list